The Man in the Picture by Susan Hill
On a dark and frosty night in Cambridge, an elderly scholar sits by the fire telling his ex-student the ’strange and somewhat disturbing’ story of a painting that hangs in the room. It depicts a Venetian carnival; in the foreground, a figure seems to be in distress. Apparently [...]
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The Man in the Picture - A Ghost Story by Susan Hill - Review
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery - Review
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The story flits between the confessions of two women: Renée Michel, a 54-year-old concierge in a Parisian block of luxury apartments, and Paloma Josse, a precocious 12-year-old girl, the daughter of one of the most bourgeois families in the house. Paloma has decided that life is meaningless and [...]
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